Simon McCleave is a million-selling crime novelist who lives in Wales with his wife and children. His first book, The Snowdonia Killings, was an Amazon Bestseller, and all other novels in the DI Ruth Hunter series ranked in the Top20. The books are now set to be filmed as a major television series. The Dark Tide, the first book in an Anglesey based crime series, was a hit in 2022. Reaching Amazon's UK Top10, it became the highest selling Waterstone's Welsh Book of the Month ever.